A video showing a police officer performing a U-turn at a red light to pull over the driver of a black utility has come under fire online.

The dash cam footage shows the black ute performing a U-turn at a yellow light on Moggill Road in Indooroopilly in Brisbane's south west.

The utility appears to cross the white line and begin the turn before the light changes to red - but when it does the police car behind follows with its lights flashing.

A fierce debate has been started over this video which sees a police car go through a red light in pursuit of a black utility

The video has proved to be controversial - dividing social media users in a fierce debate about who was in the wrong.

Lee Yuenger was not sympathetic to the driver of the black ute.

'No amber light means, ''throw a u-turn at a traffic light in front of cop like a f***ing idiot''. I hope this f***wit lost his license,' Mr Yuenger said.

But others believed the police officer going against the red light was more dangerous than the actions of the person driving the ute.

'So cop goes through a red to get old mate who would've been out of the way before other traffic... could've given him a blast on the siren and stern finger point. To get the message across,' Michael Brown said.

Others claim no law was broken by the driver of the black ute.

The black utility appears to perform the U-turn on a yellow light - which can earn an infringement notice in Queensland

The police officer followed the utility with lights on - going through a red light

'By the look of the sign the u turn is allowed. And he went through at orange not red so i see no problem. Just a cop being a p***k,' Danaan Kerr said.

Others disagreed - and said the U-turn wasn't the problem.

'Nothing wrong with the u-turn. There's a u-turn permitted sign. Only offence was not stopping on amber,' Ethan Denning said.

'Fairly sure it's illegal to enter an intersection on amber if you had plenty of time to stop... considering they were only 1/4 the way through the u-turn when the lights went red,' Victor hardy said.

One man claimed the police officer only pulled the driver over to meet a 'quota'.

'It's a grey law, not heavily enforced, mostly they only get you for it to fill their daily quota. If they've exceeded that quota they generally don't care and 98% of the time you can beat it in court, all in all no one will take this law seriously as serious as it is unless the police take it as serious as speeding or negligent driving and not as a quota filler,' Tom Bullivant said.

Others agreed it could be a 'revenue raiser'.

'I always thought amber was a warning that lights about to change to red so there is no excuse for going through a red. Otherwise whats the point of amber ? May as well go straight to red. Revenue raiser perhaps,' said Jerzy Balowski.

Hundreds of comments were added to the video - and appeared to be evenly split in support of either the police officer or the driver of the ute.

The conversation about the video became heated - and some of the comments became personal.

'People keep re-iterating the rule like some dorky ten year old with his head up his teachers ass. Have a think and consider the point made about the cop doing something more dangerous in order to lay down the rule that was broken,' Abhay Gupta said.

According to Queensland State Government's traffic rules 'if you go through a yellow or red traffic light, you may receive an infringement notice'.'You must stop on a yellow light, unless it is unsafe to do so. The yellow light is not the end of the green light phase—it is the beginning of the red light phase,' Queensland traffic laws state.

The video finishes with the black utility pulling over for police. It is not known if the driver was booked.